The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-09
Old NeMspapers.

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Old Newspapers.
They are of more use than would APP
pear ut a first glance. We subscribe
to the daily newspaper because we
must be informed on al! the affairs OF
the day. Then many think the next
thing is to reegate them to the kitch-
en- in order to provide kindling for the
househo' d fires. and it must be con-
fessed that Bridget makes very free
use of them in that way.
But they serve so many excellent
purposes besides that it seems a pity
to let Bridget lave full sway, though
! she may try to convince You that it is
impossible to get the breakfast without
even using those of the very latest
dates.
1t has been several times suggested
by economists that newspapers can be
made to take the place of blankets in
guarding from cod, and it is a fact
well worthy of notice that they have
been proved very satisfactory in max
ing light, convenient, and warm bed
covering when others cannot be had
| Travellers would do well to bear this in
mind when far from the region of ho-
tells, and not throw their paper out of
the car window, or leave 1t on their seat
in changing cars, for there is no telling
how useful it may prove in some emer-
gency to ward off cold. AS prevent
i've of that fatal disease, pneumonia, a
folded newspaper laid beneath the out
er clothing across the chest is said TO be
infallible.
AS preventive of cold feet, piece
of newspaper folded in the sole is quite
equal to if not so elegant or so expen-
sive as cork or lambskin soles, being
light, soft, and easily renewed.
If Won wish to test the power of
newspaper in excluding cold, try tack
ing one, doubly folded, between your
window and your stand of plants, and
see how nicely they will be protected,
and how frosty the window will con-
seluently be.
Newspapers will in the autumn, be-
fore severe black frosts come on,
efectually protect greenhouse plants,
before you take them up, from cold and
wind
The writer remembers once driving
up about dusk to country place, and
being startled at seeing what looked
like platoon of ghosts drawn up in
white array before the house, which
turned out to be- on closer inspection,
rows of tender plants all tied up in
newspapers to protect them from the
sudden frosts incident to the season,
that in one night might cut them all
down. We have known tomato plants
protected in the same way, and made
to ripen in the open garden much lon
ger by this inexpensive, easy precau-
ton within every ones reach.
Old newspapers are admirable as
floor coverings under carpets, or even
spread under the Kensington squares,
retaining all the dust which neither re-
mains in the carpet nor Sits through to
the floor; then they can be so easily
removed that it is great saving to use
them i'll this way especially as, the
dust well shaken out, the papers are
equally serviceable for kndling pur-
poses afterward, so can do double duty
besides the legitimate one of heralding
the news of the day.
Weather strips are now almost uni
versal, as we'll as double windows, for
securing warm rooms; but where, rs in
the case in some old-fashioned country
houses, they are not procurable, news
papers can supply the deficiency very
well by being cut in long strips, neatly
folded over, and stuffed in the inter-
stices, and so most effectually exclude
the cold outer air.
Old newspapers are excellent to
clean windows with; slightly damped,
then rubbed till clear, they serve the
purpose much better than even linen
cloth, for there is no lint to rub off.
Newspapers wrapped around the feet
under the stockings are an effectual
protection against mosquitoes, as with
all their virulence they cannot bite
through paper.
Old newspapers are faithful mirrors
of the past. AS they increase in age,
the very advertisements become Curl
Gus. Therefore those who have no use
for the modern newspaper IN all the
various ways we have pointed out must
find intellectual profit i'll storing them
away till the time when some circum-
stances may drag them frem their long
forgotten hiding places to claim an in
terest in human eyes, which perhaps
they never had to such an extent be-
fore.
Illustrated papers are very useful in
adjoining the walls of rooms, covering
up unsightly wall paper or obnoxious
holes, the delight of children as we'll as
their instructors, affording CLEANS of
cheerfulness and pleasurein else gloomy
apartments. They are of such infinite
variety, too, with their lovely illustra
tions of poems, stories, natural history
and comic sketches. as well as portraits
of beauties and notabilities, that they
continually educate the public taste, and
give the impecunious q glimpse of real
art they cannot else aliord.-Harper's
Bdzdr.
A CARPET merchant of Vienna has
curious collection of ancient wooden
and linen cloths, including more than
300 specimens. Many of them have